Conventional textual criticism vs. digital criticism and a total editing approach; Our primary sources: manuscripts and papyri]

Assigned reading:

• David Schaps, Handbook for Classical Research, Routledge 2011, Chs. 19 (“Palaeography”) and 20 (“Editing Classical Texts”) [PDFs available on Sakai site]
• Recapturing a Homeric Legacy, ed. Dué, CHS and Harvard UP, 2009; Ch. 1 Blackwell and Dué “Homer and History in the Venetus A” [PDF on Sakai site or at http://www.homermultitext.org/pubs.html]
• Papyrus blog post